He is the most successful YouTuber in the world: At just 24 years old, Jimmy Donaldson has collected more than 130 million subscribers on the video platform. More than anyone else.
In its latest production, MrBeast, as Donaldson is called on YouTube, now committed to medical assistance. He helped a total of 1000 people to see again! The video already has more than 45 million viewers.
MrBeast filmed the reactions of the operated patients
The eyesight of the people living in the Video appear has largely disappeared: your vision is mostly blurred, even colors and contrasts become blurred. People suffer from cataracts, a clouding of the lenses.
According to the “Ärzteblatt”, the disease is responsible for more than half of all blindness in developing countries. It can be cured relatively easily with an operation.
THIS is how the OP works
ophthalmologist dr. Mignon Hann explained the procedure last year in another case to BILD: “A scalpel is used to make incisions of around one millimeter in length in three places. The clouded lens is broken up with ultrasound and sucked out. Then the folded acrylic lens is inserted through the widened opening and unfolded.”
In Germany, the procedure is a routine operation, the health insurance company pays at least part of the costs depending on the lens used. In other countries around the world, the care is sometimes worse, patients often have to carry out the operation themselves – and do not have enough money for it.
So MrBeast made several hundred thousand euros and paid the surgery for the participants in his video production in different countries.
With the aid organization “SEE International” he found patients in the USA, Jamaica, Honduras, Namibia, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam and Kenya. He filmed her reactions after the procedure. Tears come to many when they can see again for the first time.
One participant receives a Tesla as a gift
And: The YouTube star put gifts on top of some of the participants. An ex-cashier who could no longer see his customers’ banknotes is said to read a letter board in the video before the operation. He fails. Everything blurry.
Try again after the operation. It reads, “You just won $10,000.” Great fun! The video lives from the emotional reactions.
Before the surgery, the reading chart was a blur for the participant. After the surgery, he was able to read them—and enjoy $10,000
A young man in the video almost completely lost his sight after a karting accident. “I want to drive. Since I can no longer drive, I’ve only been at home,” he says before the operation. After the operation, he is completely amazed: “My vision is no longer blurred.”
Suddenly, a red Tesla pulls up: The participant (yellow pullover) can’t believe his luck
Three weeks later he is filmed again. He raves about the cars that he can finally see again. Then MrBeast blindfolds him and leads him out of the building. The participant will receive a fiery red Tesla as a gift. So that he can finally drive a car again.
The participant tried out his new car together with MrBeast (left).
Finally, MrBeast announces an additional $100,000 donation to the charity that made his video possible.